Newer Drug Shows Better Survival Rates Than Tamoxifen For Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients

Postmenopausal women with breast cancer who are treated with the drug letrozole show increased survival rates after surgery compared with those treated with the drug tamoxifen, which is more widely used, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine,

Access To Family Planning For Afghan Women Essential To Success Of U.S. Efforts, Opinion Piece Says

“There are two wars going on in Afghanistan — the effort to defeat the Taliban and the fight to liberate women, Malcolm Potts, a University of California-Berkeley professor and chair of the university’s Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece.

ChiliPad™ Reduces Severity Of Hot Flashes In Menopausal Women

For many women, the word “menopause” means living with innumerable symptoms which can alter the course of their lives. Menopause affects nearly 40 million women in the United States and while it is a natural time of physical and emotional change, it can also be a time of confusion and worry. Common symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, irritability, low Libido, and depression. Hot Flashes are the most common symptom experienced by menopausal women.

Opinion Piece Criticizes Winfrey For 'Unbalanced' Medical Advice On Hormone Replacement Therapy

Oprah Winfrey “has scored good ratings with her health episodes” of her television show, but “in doing so, she seems to have thrown therapeutic caution to the wind,” such as on her shows featuring actress Suzanne Somers’ opinions on bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, Salon contributor and physician Rahul Parikh writes in an opinion piece.

Breastfeeding Associated With Reduced Risk Of Breast Cancer Among Women With Family History

Women with a family history of breast cancer appear to have a lower risk of developing the disease before menopause if they have ever breastfed a child, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. More women around the world develop breast cancer than any other malignancy, according to background information in the article.

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